Appreciative Intelligence : Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn

Appreciative Intelligence provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinary and innovative ideas; why employees, partners, colleagues, investors, and other stakeholders join them on the path to their goals, and how they achieve these goals despite obstacles and challenges. It is not simple optimism. People with appreciative intelligence are realistic and action oriented--they have the ability not just to identify positive potential, but to devise a course of action to take advantage of it.

Drawing on their own original research and recent discoveries in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, Thatchenkery and Metzker outline the evidence for appreciative intelligence, detail its specific characteristics, and show how you can develop this skill and use it in your own life and work. They show how the most successful leaders are able to spread appreciative intelligence throughout an organization, and they offer tools and exercises you can use to increase your own level of appreciative intelligence and so become more creative, resilient, successful, and personally fulfilled.

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Appreciative Intelligence provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinary and innovative ideas; why employees, partners, colleagues, investors, and other stakeholders join them on the path to their goals, and how they achieve these goals despite obstacles and challenges. It is not simple optimism. People with appreciative intelligence are realistic and action oriented--they have the ability not just to identify positive potential, but to devise a course of action to take advantage of it.

Drawing on their own original research and recent discoveries in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, Thatchenkery and Metzker outline the evidence for appreciative intelligence, detail its specific characteristics, and show how you can develop this skill and use it in your own life and work. They show how the most successful leaders are able to spread appreciative intelligence throughout an organization, and they offer tools and exercises you can use to increase your own level of appreciative intelligence and so become more creative, resilient, successful, and personally fulfilled.

目錄列表

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword: Elevating and Extending Our Capacity to Appreciate the Appreciable World

Preface

Chapter 1: Appreciative Intelligence: The Missing Link

Defining Appreciative Intelligence

Reframing

Appreciating the Positive

Seeing How the Future Unfolds from the Present

The Genesis of Appreciative Intelligence

Ahead in This Book

Chapter 2: Leveraging Appreciative Intelligence

Persistence

Conviction That One’s Actions Matter

Tolerance for Uncertainty

Irrepressible Resilience

Chapter 3: Appreciative Intelligence in Action

The Components of Appreciative Intelligence at DVFS

The Four Ensuing Qualities of Appreciative Intelligence

Building Appreciative Intelligence at DVFS

Modeling Success

Chapter 4: Reframing Reality for a Great View

Perception

Solving Problems

Building a Frame

What Appreciative Intelligence Isn’t

Chapter 5: Appreciating the Positive

Rats, Flatworms, and Bloomers

Aspects and Models of Appreciation

Seeing the Best in People

Another Case in Point

Appreciative Inquiry

Chapter 6: Seeing How the Future Unfolds from the Present

Creating (Not Just Predicting) the Future

Creating the Future Through Language

Chapter 7: Appreciative Intelligence at Work

Appreciative by Design

Modeling Success

Positive Generative Language

Reward and Appreciation

Setting Expectations

Organizational Results

Applying Appreciative Intelligence at the Organizational Level

Organizational Appreciative Intelligence Profile

Facilitating Organizational Change

Chapter 8: Developing Your Appreciative Intelligence

Grasping Intangibles

More on Intelligence

A Model for Appreciative Intelligence

Assessing Your Personal Appreciative Intelligence

Personal Appreciative Intelligence Profile

Putting Your Knowledge into Practice

Employing and Enjoying Your Appreciative Intelligence

Chapter 9: The Case for Appreciative Intelligence

The Intuitive Proposition

The Changing Understanding of Intelligence

Developing the Construct of Appreciative Intelligence

Chapter 10: The Brains Behind Appreciative Intelligence

A Quick Tour of the Brains Behind Appreciative Intelligence

Evidence from Social Cognitive Neuroscience: Social Intelligence, Stereotyping, Person Perception, and Insight